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"Integrating Osteopathic Tenets into Evidence-Informed, Person-Centered, and Culturally Sensitive Care"


Course #01, PAST-present-future | The Legacy of Dr. A.T. Still in Contemporary Healthcare | 3 hours



Osteopathic distinctiveness in contemporary care: how can our e-learning courses help clinicians reinforce their professional identity ?



· The body-mind-spirit osteopathic tenet, reintroduced in 2002, lacks clear guidelines for its practical application in contemporary clinical care. To address this gap, we have focused on patients' bodily experiences rather than philosophical or spiritual constructs. In this context, emerging evidence highlights the role of body awareness and touch-based procedures in shaping patients' experiences. Additionally, patients' values and expectations, influenced by cultural and experiential frameworks, play a critical role in how they perceive the body in health and disease, as well as the therapeutic use of touch in osteopathic practice. Considering these factors in clinical care is essential for strengthening the therapeutic alliance.


· Discover our exclusive series of three online courses, "Past-Present-Future", designed to enhance your osteopathic practice and highlight the distinctiveness of osteopathic practice by integrating scientific evidence while also acknowledging perspectives rooted in longstanding knowledge systems, including early Native American influences. By addressing these diverse patients’ worldviews, we introduce the Cynefin framework as a tool to reinforce the person-centered and holistic foundations of osteopathic practice.


· Our program is designed for professionals seeking to promote patient-centered, culturally sensitive, and evidence-based clinical approaches.


🎓 Rafael Zegarra-Parodi, MEd, DO (UK) | A.T. Still Research Institute, Kirksville, MO (USA) research affiliate | Course director

First author of six peer-reviewed publications exploring the evidence-informed clinical application of contemporary osteopathic principles (Rogers et al., 2002).


· Includes a unique 40-min lecture by Jason Haxton, MA | Director of the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, MO (USA)

· 🎥 🇺🇸 "Origins and development of osteopathy by A.T. Still through his interaction with traditional Native American medicine"


· Includes a 40-min podcast with Jason Haxton, MA & Rafael Zegarra-Parodi, DO (UK)

· 🎥 🇺🇸 "The Dr AT Still, MD, DO intercultural Vision on healthcare"

Each of our 4 self-paced, evidence-informed, Continuing Professional Development (CPD) online courses can be attended independently, and they are based on oral presentations given during a unique CPD event held at "Le Grand Rex" in Paris in May 2022

Learning objectives

Upon completing our program titled "Integrating Osteopathic Tenets in Evidence-Informed, Person-Centered, and Culturally Sensitive Care", you will have the skills and knowledge to:


🎯 Critically evaluate the early influence of traditional/indigenous healing traditions on osteopathic care, with a focus on Dr. A.T. Still’s contributions, and assess the contemporary relevance of these principles within the body-mind-spirit osteopathic tenet in evidence-informed practice.

🎯 Integrate neuroscientific insights into osteopathic techniques, emphasizing body awareness and the modulation of multisensory integration (e.g., interoception, proprioception), to enhance therapeutic outcomes in manual medicine.

🎯 Apply the Cynefin framework to clinical decision-making, improving the ability to navigate complexity and uncertainty in patient-centered osteopathic care.

🎯 Adapt osteopathic interventions to align with diverse cultural health beliefs, fostering epistemological flexibility and enhancing therapeutic efficacy across sociocultural contexts.

Target audience

· Osteopathic practitioners, students and faculty members

· Physicians and other healthcare professionals worldwide

· Medical anthropologists

· CPD course offered by BMS Formation (France)

· Non accredited course

· Designed by clinicians for clinicians


🎓 Get the opportunity to inform your practice with current evidence and engage discussions with the BMS Team and other participants!

For osteopaths registered with the General Osteopathic Council (UK), this set of three online courses, titled « Past-Present-Future », complies with the CPD activities covering the four themes of the Osteopathic Practice Standards, and more particularly the following themes: A. Communication and patient partnership (A1, A2, A6, A7), B. Knowledge, skills and performance (B4), C. Safety and quality in practice (C1, C2, C6), D. Professionalism (D2, D3, D6).

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